We, human beings, can influence the brain wiring of another anatomical being near us simply with the words, tone, or even gestures we make. We are capable of causing scientific changes in the chemistry of that being. We can even do this to people across waters on other bodies of land (through computer systems). Choose a certain hand movements or facial expressions, and you might cause serotonin rises in the brain of another being watching you. Choose a specific series of words, input them into a computer that someone on a different spot of Planet Earth is watching through a digital screen, and you might cause brain wiring changes in that organism.
Magic is, to this point in our universe where we still know so little, merely any phenomena we donβt understand. We are capable of influencing all sorts of matter around us that isnβt within our bodies or minds.
Ages ago, being able to move a curtain without touching it (by waving your hand swiftly near it) may have seemed like magic. Now we understand that happens because when we do that, we cause waves or movements in the particles or matter between our hand and the matter that forms that curtain, causing the curtain to move.
For all we know, in other galaxies it might be within the laws of physics to control matter in ways that arenβt within the laws of physics here - ways we wouldnβt imagine possible. We just donβt know it yet because we only understand the laws of physics on this planet at this point in time.
Humans can cause all sorts of anatomical changes in matter around their bodies, and matter far away. And itβs quite possible we can do far more than we understand yet. We are always capable of new types of βmagicβ, they just stop being βmagicβ once we understand them.
Here's "Call Me Al." And here's "I Earn My Life."
Don't get me wrong, the melodies aren't similar. It's just the style that's reminiscent.
This similarity is even more apparent when you realize Neil would go on to sample "Call Me Al" in a mashup. The original and the sample.
(I'm not really trying to "prove" anything, here. It's just a fun little thing I noticed.)
Gems of Horkurth:
A leather belt with silver buckle depicting 7 constellations in intricate detail and color, with a magical gem in place of the major star of each. When attuned, the belt magically grows or shrinks to the wearerβs waist size, so as to have the perfect fit without needing to adjust the buckle. While the gems are full, they glow brightly in their color, emitting bright light out to 5 feet and dim light to an additional 5. Otherwise they glow dimly, emitting negligible light. When the gems get filled with spells as opposed to spell slots, the constellations seem to morph and shift, seamlessly representing that spell in the same style of the constellations.
Legendary Item, Requires Attunement
Any Spellcasting
When you attune to the belt, choose a spell for each gem at a level that gem can hold and that you can cast with a spellcasting ability, not a class/race ability that lets you cast spells a certain number of times a day. Whenever you cast that spell from that gem, if the spell normally takes one round to cast, it instead takes an action. If it normally takes an action, it instead is a bonus action. If the spell takes longer than one round to cast, reduce the casting time by one third and round down. Each gem corresponds to a certain spell slot:
Black: 7th
Red: 6th
Orange: 5th
Yellow: 4th
Green: 3rd
Blue: 2nd
Purple: 1st
Once per short rest, you can either fill a gem with a spell slot or a spell. To fill a gem with a spell slot, use three spell slots to fill a gem. For each trio of slots, a gem is filled with a slot of the lowest level among slots you used. The gems are full until used, at which point they are emptied again. Each gem can only hold one slot of a level up to its own level. For instance, the blue gem can hold a 1st or 2nd level spell slot, but not a 3rd level slot. When the gems are full, they will glow brightly. You can use the slot by touching the gem and either casting a spell with the slot, or adding it into your slots. This will empty the gem. To fill a gem with a spell, choose a spell you can cast with a spellcasting ability expending a spell slot of the level you wish to cast it and put it in a gem of equal or higher level that is not already full. You may cast that spell from that gem without using a spell slot at the level it was put in at by touching the gem. This will empty the gem. Loading the gem takes an action. Using a full gem is a free action, however, if the gem is used to cast a spell, that spe
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The main character was the daughter of a woman who was an herbalist or seeress of some sort, I don't remember. The daughter keeps trying to find her gift, but it just comes in flashes. Then she runs into her father, who her mother wants nothing to do with. Her father has a flute, which he can play to influence people (eg make them sleep, not notice him, etc. He even played a man to death, by planting the suggestion with music for his heart to stop.) The daughter and someone else have to inflitrate a castle or are captured or something. Escaping, the daughter has to use her father's flute to calm a water-serpent, which is how she discovers that she ended up with her father's magic gift, not her mother's. It says she never played the flute again.
Read probably 8 or so years ago, was in the teen fiction section of the library. I think it's four books but I could be wrong on that. One of the books has a flute on the cover.
